#Relativity Quotes

“We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus, in his sonnets, the lays of birds, the scents and dyes of flowers, he finds to be the shadow of his beloved; time, which keeps her from him, is his chest; the suspicion she has awakened, is her ornament”

“Snake's poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means "death.”

“There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.”

“There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.”

“Change is always in regard to something which does not change, or which changes relatively less.”

“While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many.”

“All progression is in the relative world.”

“Every little bit, every atom inside the universe, is in a constant state of change and motion, but the universe as a whole is unchangeable, because motion or change is a relative thing; we can only think of something in motion in comparison with something which is not moving.”

“All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative.”

“Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.”

“When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.”

“Are not all finite beings better pleased with motions relative than absolute?”

“Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.”

“Either CS (coordinate system) could be used with equal justification. The two sentences: the sun is at rest and the earth moves, or the sun moves and the earth is at rest, would simply mean two different conventions concerning two different CS”

“When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity.”

“The faster you go, the shorter you are.”

“Of course, there are different truths on different levels. Things are true relative to other things; "long" and "short" relate to each other, "high" and "low," and so on. But is there any absolute truth? Something self-sufficient, independently true in itself? I don't think so.”

“We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.”